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OhioHealth will manage O’Bleness Hospital and Health System, the nonprofit health-care systems announced last week.

The management agreement takes effect Aug. 1 and calls for OhioHealth to place four senior executives on the management team at O’Bleness. OhioHealth also will be represented on the O’Bleness board.

OhioHealth, based in Columbus, operates hospitals including Grant and Riverside Methodist. O’Bleness is based in Athens, as is O’Bleness Memorial Hospital.

The new relationship has several benefits, the hospitals said, including: expansion of clinical programs and services, improved physician recruiting and improved coordination between Doctors Hospital-Nelsonville and O’Bleness.

Columbus

Insurance overseer bans 2 from operating in state

The Ohio Department of Insurance revoked the license last week of a company from Oklahoma and one from New York.

Imperial Casualty and Indemnity Co. of Oklahoma City lost its license effective May 7 after a district court in its home state placed the company in receivership, according to a statement from the Department of Insurance.

Atlantic Mutual Insurance Co. of New York also lost its license to do business in Ohio, effective May 3. Ohio’s insurance director, Mary Jo Hudson, said that action stemmed from the company’s failure to meet minimum financial requirements.

COLUMBUS

It’s time to enroll again in Kroger’s rewards program

Kroger is reminding participants in its Community Rewards program that it is time to re-enroll so that purchases made with Kroger Plus Cards can continue to raise money for the nonprofit groups they’ve designated as recipients.

Kroger said it contributes $5 million annually to participating organizations through its Kroger Community Rewards program.

Organizations wishing to sign up for the program can find information on the company’s website. Each group member must have a valid kroger.com account and a Kroger Plus Card to participate.

Columbus

Third Frontier OKs $11 million in grants

The state’s Third Frontier Commission approved more than $11 million in funding last week to six Ohio-based projects to help startup technology companies develop products and technologies and bring them to market. The awards are contingent upon State Controlling Board approval.

TechColumbus was awarded $500,000 for its Pre-Seed Fund III, which will maintain a nonprofit fund dedicated to helping tech-based startups in central Ohio. The focus areas are bioscience, information technology and advanced materials.

COLUMBUS

AEP rated as good place for multicultural women

Columbus-based American Electric Power is one of 23 companies nationwide recognized as the “best companies for multicultural women” in the June issue of Working Mother magazine.